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You ever see an injustice in the world—one so strong, so
overwhelming—that, try as you might, you just can't ignore it? A crime that dominates
your consciousness beyond all others? That drives you, even in the face of
certain defeat, to action?
Mine is...Linux.
Not the existence of Linux. Linux is amazing. Linux powers the world.
Linux is, as the kids say, totally tubular.
It's the name. It's the name that makes me Hulk out. Specifically, it's that
confounded "X". It just plain should not be there.

I have long held the opinion that one of the biggest problems holding back Linux-based systems
from dominating (market-share-wise) in the desktop computing space...is marketing. Our lack of
attention-grabbing, hearts-and-minds-winning marketing is, in my oh-so-humble opinion, one of the
most glaring weaknesses of the Free and Open Source Software world.
But, in a way, me saying that really isn't fair.

As we sit here, in the year Two Thousand and Eighteen (better known as "the future,
where the robots live"), our beloved Linux is the undisputed king of supercomputing.
Of the top 500 supercomputers in the world, approximately zero of them don't run Linux
(give or take...zero).

Ever wondered why programming in Bash is so difficult? Bash
employs the same constructs as traditional programming languages;
however, under the hood, the logic is rather different.
The Bourne-Again SHell (Bash) was developed by the Free
Software Foundation (FSF) under the GNU Project, which
gives it a somewhat special reputation within the
Open Source community. Today, Bash is the default user shell on
most Linux installations. Although Bash is just one of
several well known UNIX shells, its wide distribution with
Linux makes it an important tool to know.

I don't know where to begin—and I mean that in a very positive
way. I can best describe Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of
Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)
as a "literary documentary". The book provides a sort of oral
history of the Valley from the legends who built it.

Through the years, I've spent what might seem to some people an inordinate
amount of time cleaning up and preserving ancient software. My
Retrocomputing Museum page archives any
number of computer languages and games that might seem utterly
obsolete.